Week 315: Marriages and Infertility

Join us this week in praying for marriages dealing with infertility. Couples dealing with infertility experience drastic ups and downs, hopes and disappointments, month after month. Hormonal issues can create mental and physical weariness for the wife. Medical testing and treatments and their side effects can be a burden to both spouses and also strain their financial resources.

The marriage relationship itself can also be tested, particularly when the husband and wife cope with disappointment differently and grieve differently. Also, the spirits of couples in this life situation can be wounded by insensitive or thoughtless questions and statements made by their families and friends.

Finally, despite their best efforts to rejoice with others, these couples can struggle emotionally as they see their friends becoming pregnant and having children with apparent ease, while their hopes are frustrated again and again.

As you lift these couples up, pray that they will

  • have one or two close friends who understand and remain supportive
  • seek wisdom and clear leading for which doctors and which treatments to engage
  • rightly judge where the ethical boundaries lie
  • not dismiss other parenting options, such as adoption, without prayerful consideration
  • know how much to risk sharing with others
  • maintain unity as a couple
  • in all circumstances choose to turn toward God and each other with questions, frustrations and grief, resisting the temptation to turn away into their own isolated worlds
  • desire above all else God's will and plan for their lives

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